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Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Healthy Eating Nutrition—HS
Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Healthy Eating Nutrition—HS
State law addresses healthy eating/nutrition.
South Carolina Code of State Regulations 43–238. Health Education Requirements
The Comprehensive Health Education (CHE) Act of 1988 (59–32–5) requires that public school health instruction be planned, age-appropriate, and sequential. The CHE Act further requires that, at least one time during the four years of grades 9–12, each student shall receive a program of instruction in comprehensive health education to include the following subjects:
- community health
- consumer health
- environmental health
- growth and development
- nutritional health
- personal health
- prevention and control of diseases and disorders
- safety and accident prevention
- substance use and abuse
- dental health
- mental and emotional health
- reproductive health**
- pregnancy prevention**
- sexually transmitted diseases** ***
- family life (option in grades 9–12)
** a minimum of 750 minutes of instruction is required for these three together. *** Instruction in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) includes AIDS education and must be taught within the reproductive health, family life, or pregnancy prevention education components or it must be presented as a separate component (59–32–30(E)).
South Carolina Standard for Health and Safety Education
Standard identify performance indicators that address nutrition